First, that TV Tropes encourages intellectual laziness, by stuffing some concepts into little boxes that they might not necessarily fit in.
Second, that by using tropes as a shorthand, you make a conversation impenetrable to anyone who hasn't invested time in learning the TV Tropes vocabulary. As TV Tropes is a notorious time sink, that represents a significant investment to demand of someone unfamiliar with it.
Third, that TV Tropes isn't good at what it does: going overboard in categorization in some cases (the proliferation of "Mary Sue" archetypes is one example) while in other cases self-censoring itself and banning discussion of adult-oriented tropes (the recent purge of adult content to avoid censorship by Google Ads).
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Date: 2012-08-24 09:43 pm (UTC)First, that TV Tropes encourages intellectual laziness, by stuffing some concepts into little boxes that they might not necessarily fit in.
Second, that by using tropes as a shorthand, you make a conversation impenetrable to anyone who hasn't invested time in learning the TV Tropes vocabulary. As TV Tropes is a notorious time sink, that represents a significant investment to demand of someone unfamiliar with it.
Third, that TV Tropes isn't good at what it does: going overboard in categorization in some cases (the proliferation of "Mary Sue" archetypes is one example) while in other cases self-censoring itself and banning discussion of adult-oriented tropes (the recent purge of adult content to avoid censorship by Google Ads).